[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

[Matt Emmott]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>wrote:

> On 11-02-22 02:41 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> >
> > Most current SATA drives on the market are flawed. I the expectation
> > is 1% to 7% of all your drives will fail each year.
>
> Does this number have any scientific study behind it or is it just your
> own finding?
>
> Because if it's just your own finding then it could be entirely
> environmental and nothing to do with drive quality.
>
>
Not to mention that consumer-grade HDDs and server-grade HDDs are different
animals (although I guess I don't know what you're running). We go through
somewhere between 2 and 4 hard drives per week at my work out of I don't
know, 2000 drives. And that's in a temperature / humidity / power controlled
data center.
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